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One of the more interesting aspects involving the news coverage of the war in Iraq was the personal accounts of embedded reporters as they traveled with soldiers. Readers got a first-hand, first-person account of what fighting men and women experienced. Similar ideas are behind the newest trend in Internet communication, the Web log, or "blog."
A blog is a journal in which people write, often in a brutally direct way, about their observations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions. Then they open it to the public, worldwide. A blog can be about a range of topics, whatever the writer is thinking about. Or it can be on a narrower topic, such a politics, education, technology, popular culture, or humor. Some blogs read like online magazines, with reports and commentaries about new developments. Most blogs are personal, but a good number are business-oriented. Like Web sites, blogs can include pictures and links to other Web sites. Unlike Web sites, new entries go on top of the page, pushing previous entries down.
Anyone can write a blog, anyone can read one. Blog sites typically include software for creating blogs, with predesigned templates to make things easy, and Web space that...